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Linux nerds screeching about how Linux desktop works perfectly out of the box and with less time and effort then Windows/OsX.
It's entirely counterproductive to adoption.
Yeah, I tell people Linux is like driving a custom built car. You can make it do anything you want and have absolute control and freedom, and often do things other cars can't, faster and more efficiently and cheaply. But sometimes it's going to break and you need to get in there and wrench. If you don't enjoy learning, or work 80 hour weeks and have no time to tinker, don't use Linux desktop.
I got my SO to change because they like to customize, and I'm there if if breaks.
I’m learning a lot. I am now at the point where I know just enough to break everything but not yet enough to fix anything.
It works out of the box - if you do nothing at all to it and just browse.
But to do anything like getting all of your favorite programs, that's going to take effort.
Though the Application “Store fronts” have come a long way in helping the newbies get rolling.
With older hardware sure. I largely have a flawless experience with anything 10 years old or older. And as long as it’s simple anything 5 years old works perfectly too.
But somehow my 5 year old network card is basically unusable on Linux unless I disable 6ghz WiFi.
Not even. I need custom scripts for audio, can't turn my display off and on I need to pull the HDMI cable, and Bluetooth is basically unusable.
Bluetooth Linux sucks ass. No one can solve my Bluetooth issue and I'm using a good tp link dongle and updated kernel and keep getting skipping randomly over Bluetooth. So bad.
“I got my 107 year-old great grandmother running Arch from the command line in 20 minutes! Now she browses with Lynx and hosts a Matrix server.”